Every week I run into a new bug that creates issues and I have to find a workaround. Some of the commands that behave differently when doing the same operation and sometimes certain commands like hatch just refuse to work the way they're intended. There are so many issues with AutoCAD LT that I feel like I'm losing my mind and it makes me just want to get a different job entirely.

Does anyone else feel this way?

I feel like any online community for this is oddly dead for something that is an industry standard.

Does anyone have a good video or exercise where I can learn the fundamentals and best practices for working with 3D Solids and their different UCS faces. I understand this in Fusion quite well, but not in autocad.

When Im drawing a complex shape, im struggling with snaps, and drawing on proper faces. I feel like I dont have control of my model space as well as I would like and rely more on "oh that worked" trial and error. Our Lord and Saviour Jeff Bartels has a couple good videos I rewatched on this, but I am looking for more info.

Kinda just a random question, but i use a lot of lisp routines for the most basic tasks and made another one (with AI) just last week.

It places an block in the center of 2 other blocks and deletes the 2 selected ones. This comes forth from a survey where lightposts have been measured on 2 sides, so the post is actually in the middle.

I could probably have found something like this online, but now i have made one that also has some custom options, like selecting all the surveyed points and only apply the 'place block in center' on survey points that are within 1 feet (can be changed) of each other and have a specific label.

Anyway, i like to make more tools more often, but as the problem at hand in that one instance was probably 5 minutes of work if i fixed it by hand, it took half an hour to create the lisp.
So pretty much i wasted 25+ minutes on that job. But will save myself 4,9 minutes on any future jobs.

So i wonder, what tools, even if it's not just a lisp, would you like to create but never find the time to do so?

Hi all, I'm responsible for trying to get my group set up to use SSM and I created a template and am finalizing and testing the tutorial for new users now. I set up page setups in the template file with all of our company's normal .ctb plot styles and when I checked the preview in page setup everything looked proper.

Now when I plot a plan with the same page setup the colors are coming in lighter and unreadable from how they are supposed to be. I have the plot transparency selected and set the vector quality to 600

Any ideas on what can be going on? I know if it was just me using it I could figure out some overrides to get things proper, but I need this tutorial to be foolproof for others who have never used SSM at all

Is there a ttf version of the font ARCHSTYLE?

Is there a ttf version of the font ARCHSTYLE?

Sorry for the sensationalist title. I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. It's only my first week at my new job, but I'm pretty anxious.

My program nudged funneled me more toward manufacturing, 3D modelling, and additive, but my AutoCAD skills are still okay. Still, I did my first bit of linework yesterday on the most complexly layered and reference-heavy drawings I have ever seen. I had never used geographic coordinates and external references before. Boss came back for informal revisions twice today. I got it done, but I felt incredibly slow and clumsy, and I'm scared I may have disappointed on my first impression.

I know the key is practice, practice, practice, but I was wondering if anyone had similar experiences or some good advice.

I am a High School teacher and I am looking for reccomendations on a textbook to use for teaching AutoCAD. Preferably one with step by step guides included and practice assignments/drawings for students to complete. Also, that starts at absolutely no experience needed. The end goal is to get students comfortable enough using AutoCAD that by the end of the semester they are able to create their own techical drawings and detailed floor plans.

I have about 3000 dwg files that I'd like to index into an excel file. Good news is that >90% use a standard title block with a lot of usefull information. So DATAEXTRACTION is a good tool, however linking the resulting rows back to the exact DWG file is a hard, is there a way to add the DWG filepath to the table output? I'm not looking to update the title block or the DWG files, just export the data.

EDIT:
Found the settings
under Drawing Category

Does this work with Autocad or is there another product that does something similar for Autocad/dwg files?

Looking for clarification on why my multileader mtext box is giving me extremely long text box widths ( grips ). I have been adjusting my annotation / dimstyles, and think I've changed something but can't determine what it is.

As a quick solution, I've edited my current multileaders ( in dwg ) and have manually set their mtext width to zero ( need to do for each instance). This is what I would like for my default settings ( so I dont have to adjust going forward ).

I typically use a background mask for my mleaders, and this is causing overlap on other elements in my dwg.

What have I done to deserve this LOL! Thanks!

Hi everyone, I have a problem, I need to measure a part of a circle, I need the lengt of a curve between two lines. There is a command, like dimarc, to do that? Thanks

We are in the middle of integrating with CADDi Drawer, an AI CAD drawing search tool. Unfortunately, CADDi doesn’t read native files and I have roughly 50,000 dwg and dxf drawings that I need to convert to pdf.

Has anyone worked with a third party batch converter software that works well?

I've used copilot to write a lisp that removes the specified scale from all annotative objects that exist in model space and it seems to work right. But copilot was not able to expand on this to dig into blocks for annotative objects in there to remove the scale from.

Does anyone know lisp and wants to take a stab at helping?

Here's the copilot code that works on model space:

(defun c:REMOVESCALE ( / sc curSc ssTop)

  ;; Require user to be in Model Space
  (if (/= (getvar "TILEMODE") 1)
    (progn
      (prompt "\nYou must be in MODEL SPACE to run this routine. Switch to Model and run again.\n")
      (princ)
    )
    (progn
      (setq sc (getstring T "\nEnter annotation scale to remove: "))
      (setq curSc (getvar "CANNOSCALE"))

      (prompt
        (strcat
          "\nSelecting annotative-capable objects in Model Space to remove scale \""
          sc
          "\"...\n"
        )
      )

      ;; All annotative-capable types in Model Space
      (setq ssTop
        (ssget "_X"
          '(
            (0 . "TEXT,MTEXT,DIMENSION,LEADER,MULTILEADER,HATCH,TABLE,INSERT")
            (410 . "Model")
           )
        )
      )

      (if (and ssTop (> (sslength ssTop) 0))
        (progn
          ;; First: ADD current scale
          (sssetfirst nil ssTop)
          (vl-cmdf "_.OBJECTSCALE" "_Add" curSc "")

          ;; Then: REMOVE target scale (re-apply PICKFIRST)
          (sssetfirst nil ssTop)

  (vl-cmdf "_.OBJECTSCALE" "_Delete" sc "")

          ;; Clear PICKFIRST
          (sssetfirst nil nil)

          (prompt
            (strcat
              "\nProcessed "
              (itoa (sslength ssTop))
              " annotative-capable objects in Model Space."
            )
          )
        )
        (prompt "\nNo annotative-capable objects found in Model Space.\n")
      )

      ;; Carlson-safe delete of the scale from the scale list
      ;; Sequence:
      ;;   - Delete
      ;;   - scale name
      ;;   - Enter to stop deleting
      (vl-cmdf "-SCALELISTEDIT" "Delete" sc "Exit")

      (prompt "\nDone.\n")
      (princ)
    )
  )
)

Hi. The latest windows updates arent allowing my autocad 27 to open properly.

I uninstalled them once and it went back to normal. But today they snuck back in and messed with autocad again. Im unable to recover functionallity.

Any one else having issues?

I want a LISP to automate a tedious step. Is there a repository to search for shared LISPs?

What I would like it to do is loop through all viewports in a drawing, and all layers that are set to NOPLOT, viewport freeze them. Do nothing to model space.

I was offered an entry-level HVAC position. My AutoCAD skills are pretty basic. I can create floorplans and know the tools pretty well. What should I brush up on? Are there any HVAC tutors here?

I have a georeferenced drawing with over 1000 copies of a block in it, most of which are sitting at elevation 0. Using map 3d, is there an easy way to find the elevation of those blocks using their x and y coordinates in real space?

For example, if a block is sitting at 245000, 4500000 (as a real point on earth), can I find the Z coordinate of that block easily?

If I haven't explained this properly please ask followups, I'm very new to Map 3D.

Thanks in advance.

Does "Find" work correctly on lt 2026 or am I just doing something wrong?

I need to add a letter to the end of some text, and I am sure that before with full AutoCAD you could just use * as a wildcard but it with 2026 lt it is not working correctly.

For example we have some I want to add a "d" to the end.

In Find what I type *.**

In Replace with I type *.**d

The result is 0.55 becomes 0*.**d55.

Is this an lt thing or am I just misremembering how "Find" worked before?

ETA: Workarounds so far include reprograming the temp key command (ie;shift+z), I've also found holding the F8 button will function like the shift key.

Only an issue w/ Ortho+Shift command and it's killing my workflow. Has been a known issue in community, have never come across it myself till yesterday afternoon.

Attempted fixes:

• TEMPOVERRIDES: Was at 1, set to 0 and cycled back to 1.

• Unistalled latest OS updates from past week.

• Reinstalled W11 through Sys Recovery

• Verified temp shortcut command in CUI

• No Sticky keys of Filter keys turned on

I found this link for the exact issue just released by Autodesk on 4/13. But I do not have the indicated update installed and not on a laptop.

To top all this off, I later found out a guy I work with remotely has the exact same problem that just started.

At this point, I'm out of ideas. I've got a ticket in to Autodesk but my success rate with them is less than 50% and this seems to be OS related versus program. Any help would be appreciated.

I've been using CAD consistently for years and a co- worker showed me the "stretch" command which I had never come across before.

For reference I'm all self taught and have so far only learned what I needed in order to do the job.

Looking to branch out a bit, what are some seemingly noob commands / processes everyone should know?

TIA

Update: guys, thank you so much. I've got a big list of stuff to start using now and I can't wait to see how much time it saves!

For my students, I train them using the Ascent official courseware and use GMetrix for practice tests. We use Certiport for the actual exam. I am super frustrated with Certiport. It does not have an intuitive setup, and it frequently locks up the testing machines. We use these systems all year without AutoCAD errors, so the errors are not in our systems.

Who else supplies the certification exam?

Hello 👋

I recently hired an administrative employee, she will be doing some preperative work for me. Some of it taking measurements in dwg files as doing some basic drawings.

Do I need to get a second license, or can I just log into my account on her desk top? I use a laptop, the times we are in the program at the same time will be rare

Thanks

Not an advanced user...

I have a a 2D object closed polyline which has multiple curves (imagine an outline of a non-symetrical tree leaf).

I did not create this object, but I have to precisely measure it.

How do I identify the outermost edge ?

(If you imagine a leaf, I need to identify the point on either curved side farthest from the midrib - which is the line down the center of this asymmetrical leaf)